Coercion Quotes
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
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The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God's kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
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The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.
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The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.
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We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
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All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
